# Does Claris ever listen developer feedback? And would it help if we got together and somehow presented them with the list of 4-5 OBVIOUS feature requests that \*shouldn't\* be too onerous to them. I'm thinking something like: **URL:** \ **Category:** ConstructiveTalk\ **Tags:** filemaker, support, feature-request\ **Created:** [June 10, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/does-claris-ever-listen-developer-feedback-and-would-it-help-if-we-got-together-and-somehow-presented-them-with-the-list-of-4-5-obvious-feature-requests-that-shouldnt-be-too-onerous-to-them-im-thinking-something-like/2215 "2021-06-10T16:19:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MonkeybreadSoftware](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/monkeybreadsoftware/32/361_2.png) [@MonkeybreadSoftware](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/MonkeybreadSoftware)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/does-claris-ever-listen-developer-feedback-and-would-it-help-if-we-got-together-and-somehow-presented-them-with-the-list-of-4-5-obvious-feature-requests-that-shouldnt-be-too-onerous-to-them-im-thinking-something-like/2215/32 "2021-06-25T21:44:34Z")
I may add that the suggestion for Data API Plugins was posted three years ago in the ideas section and made it into the product in v19.3. Made me happy! ---
**Author:** ![Vincent\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5a626/32.png) [@Vincent\_L](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Vincent_L)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/does-claris-ever-listen-developer-feedback-and-would-it-help-if-we-got-together-and-somehow-presented-them-with-the-list-of-4-5-obvious-feature-requests-that-shouldnt-be-too-onerous-to-them-im-thinking-something-like/2215/33 "2021-06-25T23:20:00Z")
Well, I really hope that this feature Data API Plugins, didn't need our input to be planned. It's an obvious one, as filemaker supports plug-in there shouldn't be any reason the sub-platform that is DATA API, shouldn't have plugin support. It's more like they're 3 years late, but that's ok. If Christian was invited to code for 1 month in Claris HQ, we would get 50 low-hanging features that would change our lives. In the past, I could have bought the "Claris has to do much more validation testing" but that's false as demonstrated by their behavior-changing updates that broke a lot of code, without any notice. Plus, there's zero chance to have a feature like custom excel export headers doing any harm to the platform unless FileMaker's code is just an unbelievable spaghetti mess (which by the way I think it is, due to the constant stream of unrelated unexpected bugs that we get, and the unbelievable slow pace of new features). There's no way a listening customer company would leave 20+ years constantly asked feature such easy to implement completely unaddressed. ---
**Author:** ![Cecile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/cecile/32/98_2.png) [@Cecile](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Cecile)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/does-claris-ever-listen-developer-feedback-and-would-it-help-if-we-got-together-and-somehow-presented-them-with-the-list-of-4-5-obvious-feature-requests-that-shouldnt-be-too-onerous-to-them-im-thinking-something-like/2215/36 "2021-06-26T21:30:10Z")
4 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Does Claris ever listen developer feedback? (In construction)](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/does-claris-ever-listen-developer-feedback-in-construction/2260/17) ---
**Author:** ![Cecile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/cecile/32/98_2.png) [@Cecile](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Cecile)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/does-claris-ever-listen-developer-feedback-and-would-it-help-if-we-got-together-and-somehow-presented-them-with-the-list-of-4-5-obvious-feature-requests-that-shouldnt-be-too-onerous-to-them-im-thinking-something-like/2215/37 "2021-06-26T21:30:47Z")
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**Author:** ![Cecile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/cecile/32/98_2.png) [@Cecile](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Cecile)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/does-claris-ever-listen-developer-feedback-and-would-it-help-if-we-got-together-and-somehow-presented-them-with-the-list-of-4-5-obvious-feature-requests-that-shouldnt-be-too-onerous-to-them-im-thinking-something-like/2215/38 "2021-06-26T21:31:11Z")
The rest of the reorganization of the thread will be done tomorrow. [Previous page](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/does-claris-ever-listen-developer-feedback-and-would-it-help-if-we-got-together-and-somehow-presented-them-with-the-list-of-4-5-obvious-feature-requests-that-shouldnt-be-too-onerous-to-them-im-thinking-something-like/2215.md?page=1)